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Virtual worlds, as digital learning objects appear to provide a space for constructivist learning at its best, facilitating more student engagement than the simple discussion boards comprising most online courses.
- Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
  
  A virtual world by itself can not be exptected to create engagement and contrasting virtual worlds with discusson boards is apples vs oranges. Each can serve its purpose and each can be engaging if developed an delivered properly, but alas the opposite is also true.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A virtual world by itself can not be exptected to create engagement and contrasting virtual worlds with discusson boards is apples vs oranges. Each can serve its purpose and each can be engaging if developed an delivered properly, but alas the opposite is also true.</div>
  
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that students will become as motivated by virtual worlds as they are by video games.
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- Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
  
  I would like to see the citation for video games being inhrently motivating, and motivated in what way? To play or to learn, they are different things.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I would like to see the citation for video games being inhrently motivating, and motivated in what way? To play or to learn, they are different things.</div>
  
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Most lectures were given in the classroom, so those given in SL, hampered by the slowness of text chat versus face-to-face conversation, suffered by comparison. Many students had to be on campus anyway during scheduled online class activities, leading to situations in which students were text chatting while sitting next to one another in a computer lab.
- Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
  
  This is just a Duh statement, of course students are not going to want to use a virual world platform while they are together in an actual classroom - its contrived and serves no purposed other then the oft mentioned "we hope it motivates the students" but why would it? If you don't use a virual world platform to take advantage of its unique affordances then the outcomes acheived in this study should be expected.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is just a Duh statement, of course students are not going to want to use a virual world platform while they are together in an actual classroom - its contrived and serves no purposed other then the oft mentioned "we hope it motivates the students" but why would it? If you don't use a virual world platform to take advantage of its unique affordances then the outcomes acheived in this study should be expected.</div>
  
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understanding the validity and creative procedure for illustrating their papers in a three-dimensional environment
- Steven Hornik on 02 Jun 09
  
  Again, why use a virtual world for presenting papers in a face2face class?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Again, why use a virtual world for presenting papers in a face2face class?</div>
  
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